How to say "engineer" in Arabic

Loanword

Meaningengineer

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

مُهَنْدِس

muhandisמהנדס

مهندس

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

מהנדס

mehandesمِهَانْدِس

How the two words are related

Loanword

Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).

Hebrew root

ה-נ-ד-ס

Hebrew מהנדס and הנדסה came straight from Arabic مهندس/هندسة in the medieval era, when Arabic was the language of geometry; Arabic itself had taken handasa from Persian andāza 'measure'. One of the cleanest Arabic-to-Hebrew professional loans.

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In a phrase

أَخِي مُهَنْدِس

akhī muhandisאח'י מהנדס

My brother is an engineer.

Plural

مُهَنْدِسُون

muhandisūnמהנדסון

sound masculine plural -ūn

Feminine

مُهَنْدِسَة

muhandisaמהנדסה